57/99 Munde speaks of twins being delivered by Cesarean section. Franklin gives the instance of a woman delivered at full term of a living child by this means, in whom was also found a dead fetus. It lay behind the stump of the amputated cervix, in the culdesac of Douglas. The patient died of hemorrhage. This monster consisted of two females of about the same size, united from the sternal notch to the navel, having one cord and one placenta. |